Monthly Archives: June 2016

Francisco Rogério Moreira Campos and Bruno de Pinheiro Tavares What’s the Tallinn Manual? The Tallinn Manual, developed by researchers and experts on cyber conflicts applied to international law, is a non binding academic document, which interprets international norms in order to find common ground in complex legal cases involving cyber wars and cyber operations, while focusing…

Interview given by the researcher Lucas Anjos, for the June 2016 edition of the Observatório de Diversidade Cultural bulletin. Read the whole interview below: A recent ethnographic study at the University College London sent nine researchers to different places around the world, such as Brazil, Italy, China, and Turkey, in order to observe how people relate…

Bruna Batista and Luís Israel On the 19th of this month, four years have passed since the Ecuadorian embassy in London granted political asylum to Julian Assange, Australian cyberactivist and editor-in-chief of Wikileaks. The hunt for Assange began in 2010 with the leak of confidential documents from the US government through the wiki. Julian contributed…

Anna Flávia Moreira e Flaviano de Oliveira Law focuses on social facts and, if social facts change, the Law also needs to adapt in order to maintain its effectiveness on the new horizons of reality. In this sense, the network society, based on the economic and technological paradigm of information not only reflects in new…

Luiza Brandão What is jurisdiction? Jurisdiction can be understood as the manifestation of the power and duty of a State to solve conflicts and to impose its decisions in order to promote social peace. In the international context, the jurisdiction would be based on criteria of disputes’ distribution among States, that, once uniform and universal,…

Lucas Anjos and Tatiana Resende Also called collaborative consumption, the concept of sharing economy has changed paradigms of economic market in recent years. The development of new technologies, besides connecting people, also provides more possibilities for contracting services, consumer goods and skills in a bussiness model independent of formal economic market (see more information here).…

Letícia Vial and Marcos Henrique Leroy Intellectual Property in Brazil is generally divided into two big groups: Industrial property It envolves works of utility, industrial and commercial character, and includes studies about trademarks and patents, among others; Copyrights Its a series of rights, with several implications at the context of the Internet. That is why…

Matheus Rosa and Victor Barbieri Rodrigues Vieira Nowadays, with the advent of the Internet, discussions about data privacy have been occuring on a regular basis. The rise of countless ways of online interaction, such as forums and social networks, alongside technologies that keep us connected to the web all the time, allowing each and every one of…

Bruno Tavares e Francisco Rogério A provider is the natural or legal person responsible for offering services related to the Internet and its functioning. Law no. 12.965/14 (Civil Rights Framework for the Internet) distinguishes access providers f application providers. However, the doctrine uses more rigorous distinctions, important to characterize more precisely the civil liability, the extension of…